Wikidata May 2023

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A collaboration between three Wikimedia affiliates to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata

by Maria Heuschkel

Dear everyone, As presented at last year's WikidataCon <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk>, Wikimedia Deutschland has set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund administered by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a collaboration in the next two years. Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this project with all of you. After spending the last few months with conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata software collaboration. Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages. Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12 regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two Wikimedia project-based communities. For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata. Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on various wiki projects related to Igbo language <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language> and culture. The user group is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community, content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has established its own Wikidata hub in 2021. The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa <https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is aiming at building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their project and mentoring program. Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in general. Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and more has formed around Wikidata. Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams, software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata community and providing support for emerging tech communities. If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on this on our project page on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>, where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please use the talk page there to get in contact with us. We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life! With kind regards, Igbo Wikimedians User Group Wikimedia Indonesia Wikimedia Deutschland -- Maria Heuschkel Projektmanagerin Softwareentwicklung Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

9 months, 2 weeks

Weekly Summary #578

by Léa Lacroix

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yy-MOJf2U-fMyC1NEkWHjIcDPKF5_3dnsdxJnt9…> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/05/25/mike-peel-shares-his-experience-mento…> Tool of the week[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_05_…> | edit source <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_05_…> ] - TalkPageHeader.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/TalkPageHeader.js> shows the talk page header for languages other than English. Other Noteworthy Stuff - The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…> - The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337446>. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - time of periapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11796> (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis) - matched by identifier from <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11797> (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item) - External identifiers: Diritto on line ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11798> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - ISCED Attainment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Attainment> (''(no English description proposed yet)'') - ISCED category orientation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_category_ori…> (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program) - Learning outcome <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Learning_outcome> (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program) - External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GamersGlobal_serie…> , Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_machi…> , BFM.ru persons ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BFM.ru_persons_ID> , Open Yearbook org id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Yearbook_org_…> - Query examples: - Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish <https://w.wiki/6mCc> ( source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1662595154635640834>) - Twins at Eurovision <https://w.wiki/6mWq> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1662472792938250241>) Development - Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most. - Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…> . Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

11 months

Introducing the Wikidata thesis toolkit

by Williams,HK

Introducing the Wikidata thesis toolkit With the focus increasingly on the academic library as a provider of Open Knowledge, the libraries at LSE and York have been working to develop a process to upload research theses metadata to Wikidata in order to extend the access and visibility of scholarly content. We are keen to reduce the development burden for this work across the sector and have compiled a toolkit to give guidance to other academic libraries who are interested in promoting their research in a similar way. A more detailed introduction to our work can be found here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FylUJ9soIqMzH3yCOHHZzPgE7S3cvdZQowhpY2…>, and the toolkit itself can be accessed via the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_Thesis_Toolkit>. Helen and Ruth will be presenting the toolkit at the Metadata and Discovery Group conference<https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1729456&group=201298> in September 2023. Helen Williams and Ruth Elder Helen Williams Metadata Manager, Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group LSE Library Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE H.K.Williams(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:H.K.Williams@lse.ac.uk> ORCID: 0000-0003-1259-7097<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-7097> Twitter: @HelsHRW Ruth Elder Collections Management Specialist Content and Open Research Library, Archives and Learning Services Student and Academic Services University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD ruth.elder(a)york.ac.uk<mailto:ruth.elder@york.ac.uk> Twitter: @ruthelder2

11 months, 1 week

Wikidata Query Service overloaded in codfw

by Guillaume Lederrey

Hello all! We are currently experiencing issues with the codfw WDQS cluster, with a sharp drop in successful queries [1]. We suspect that the cluster is overloaded by some expensive queries, but we are still tracking them down. This should affect only traffic routed to the codfw cluster [2]. We will post an update as soon as we know more. Good luck! Guillaume [1] https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/l-3CMlN4z/wdqs-uptime-slo?orgId=1&var-Datac… [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_traffic_routing -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

11 months, 1 week

Weekly Summary #573

by Léa Lacroix

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - - CEUR-WS <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/CEUR-WS> (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org) - AcmiBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AcmiBot> (Task: Sync links with ACMI API) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023> took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmh2023-Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023_Project_S…> , replay <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-kckDEaR0>). You can also find more documentation on this page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Documentation>. Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Papers - Melanie Conroy, *Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata <https://culturalanalytics.org/article/74068-quantifying-the-gap-the-gender-…>*; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023. - Videos - Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D._Metilli,_B._Melis,_M._Fioravanti…>, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Schedule> (Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5MUaV4eyY&t=5913>) - Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Making_Queer_Faces_and_Voices_Visib…>, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Schedule> (Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5MUaV4eyY&t=45>) - Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A._Jiyun_Jung,_A._Rodriguez,_C._Yra…>, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Schedule> - “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A._Rodriguez,_C._Yragui_-_But_What_…>, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Schedule> ( Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5MUaV4eyY&t=8357>) Tool of the week[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_05_…> | edit source <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_05_…> ] - CreateNewEntity.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/CreateNewEntity.js> got improved to support up to 11 languages. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…> - Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WBC_Data_Modelling_Research_Report_…>. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11787>, Napster release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11788>, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11789>, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11790>, Global Smash Roster fighter ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11791>, RAWG developer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11792>, RAWG publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11793>, Qualigeo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11794>, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11795> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - population by ethnic group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_by_ethn…> (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis) - points of bonus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/points_of_bonus> (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...)) - External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Israel_Composers%2…> , Stage 32 profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stage_32_profile_ID> , kaino.kotus.fi identifiers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kaino.kotus.fi_ide…> , Radiomuseum.org company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radiomuseum.org_co…> , Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Law_Insider_Legal_…> - Query examples: - Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked <https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/90b2qkGoXwEi8oyACEY04AYecq4iQU6A…> (source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1660399074913165312>) Development - We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332739>) - We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. - We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code. - We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337081>) - We attended the Wikimedia hackathon. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…> . Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

11 months, 1 week

Task/Incident Report from recent WDQS outage

by Brian King

Greetings Wikidata, As you may already know, we had an incident last week which caused a subset of users to receive stale results when querying WDQS. The incident occurred from 2023-05-04 1000 UTC to 2023-05-10 at 1030 UTC. The task for this issue is here[0] and the incident report is here[1] . If you have any questions or feedback on this outage, please respond in the task (recommended) or reply directly to me. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Best, Brian King SRE, Search Platform Team Wikimedia Foundation IRC: inflatador [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336134 [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-05-05_wdqs_not_updating_…

11 months, 2 weeks

WMDE Hardware Donation Program - Request for a laptop to support your Wikidata work

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

Hello, I’m excited to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Deutschland Hardware Donation Program <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>, which aims to provide used laptops to eligible Wikidata contributors who may not have access to the necessary hardware to continue their valuable contributions to the project. To apply for a laptop, users must have actively contributed to Wikidata for at least 1 year. Contributions could include being an editor, conducting research related to Wikidata, developing software or tools related to Wikidata, or organizing Wikidata-related training for others. Applicants must also agree to identify themselves with WMDE and sign a brief agreement stating that they intend to use the donated hardware to support their activity on Wikidata. To apply, simply visit the following link and enter your Username to create a new page with a preloaded application form: Wikidata:Wikimedia Deutschland Hardware Donation Program#Applying <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>. Applications will be reviewed by WMDE staff with an observer from the community, and decisions will be based on the set criteria and the availability of equipment. We look forward to supporting the Wikidata community through this program, and we hope it will help us take another step toward building a better, more inclusive project for everyone. If you have any questions feel free to reach out via email or leave a comment on the project talk page: Wikidata talk:Wikimedia Deutschland Hardware Donation Program <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata%20talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardwar…> . Cheers, -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

11 months, 2 weeks

Weekly Summary #572

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New requests for permissions/Bot: - WikiRankBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/WikiRan…> (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1661>. "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking") - TiagoLubianaBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TiagoLu…> (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! <https://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/de/sta/the/ver.cfm?event_id=24683756> Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line) - Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education <https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/agenda/2023/05/11/conversatorio-sobre-da…>. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m. - Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data <https://www.literature.gr/eve-pros-mia-nea-ethniki-politiki-vivliografikis-…>. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023 Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata <https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/papers/WikiWorkshop2023_paper_8.pdf> - Videos - Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3-nklyrDx4> - ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIKsPrmAQq8> - Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1818117233> - Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School? <https://observablehq.com/d/4ed4dd247271da64> Tool of the week - tidywikidatar <https://edjnet.github.io/tidywikidatar/> is an R package <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:R_package> for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…> - re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity <https://www.wikimedia.de/reshape/en/homepage/> - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - iconically alludes to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11785> (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme) - External identifiers: Wood Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11776>, Humanities Commons member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11780>, Shipbucket ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11781>, MEL residence ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11782>, JMA weather station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11783>, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11784>, GamesRadar+ ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11786>, L'Histoire par l'image ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11787>, Napster release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11788> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Qualigeo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qualigeo_ID>, Ut ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ut_ID>, RAWG developer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAWG_developer_ID>, RAWG publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAWG_publisher_ID>, Israel Composers' League composer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Israel_Composers%2…> - Query examples: - Name of languages containing the words "old" or "ancient" <https://w.wiki/6gvM> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1656574461162692609>) - Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" <https://w.wiki/5XuN> (source <https://twitter.com/digitalWestie/status/1656310645162139650>) - Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? <https://w.wiki/6g$5> (source <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1656644392348798977>) - Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time <https://w.wiki/6gRt> (source <https://wikis.world/@openartdata@mastodon.art/110337473330299894>) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now <https://w.wiki/6TNS> (Week 19, 2023) (source <https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110360897866179383>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Personal Pronouns <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Pronouns> (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata) Development - EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>) - Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype ( phab:T334450 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334450>) - mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. ( phab:T330193 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330193>, phab:T329626 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329626>) - Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332739>). You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

11 months, 2 weeks

Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2023 & Outreachy Round 26

by Vasanth Gopa

Hello folks, Please join us in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2023 [1] and Outreachy Round 26 [2]! **Google Summer of Code 2023** 1. Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring and upgrading React <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976> Mentors: Sage Ross 2. Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for Canasta < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773> Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang 3. Nikhil Mahajan, India, End-to-end test coverage for Abstract Wikipedia's Wikifunctions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333498> Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić 4. Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671> Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas 5. Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for Article Scoped Programs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932> Mentors: Sage Ross 6. Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application and expanding keyboard languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156> Mentors: Andrew McAllister 7. Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more reliable < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126> Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam 8. Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465> Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta 9. Varun Shrivastava, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - Code Quality/Code Health <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333466> Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta **Outreachy Round 26** 1. Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792> Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo 2. Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097> Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo 3. Sulagna Saha, Bangladesh, Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333790> Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on this thread and give a brief overview of the project they will be working on. We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community, and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the summer. Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm and commitment! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26 Regards, GSoC / Outreachy Wikimedia organization administrators (Gopa, Sohom, Srishti)

11 months, 3 weeks

Weekly Summary #571

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data <https://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/conferences/2023/mardimeetsis.html> — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n) <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=91> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available <https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/05/vocaleyes-wikidata-accessibility-informati…> - Papers - Wikidata: The Making Of <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543873.3585579> (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch) - The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33607-z> - Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1812148333> Tool of the week Open Burial Map <https://burial.dsantini.it/#10,45,2,blue,wd_indirect> - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11762>, Britannica Kids students level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11764>, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11765>, TOOI identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11767>, Chess Programming Wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11768> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - character in this lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/character_in_this_…> (character(s) this lexeme consists of) - External identifiers: none - Query examples: - Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line <https://w.wiki/6fYZ> (source <https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1654490926859931652>) - Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title <https://w.wiki/6fWP> (source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1654443096820645890>) - Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle <https://w.wiki/6e$8> (source <https://twitter.com/diedatenlaube/status/1653675996502007813>) Development - (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.o…> - (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.o…> - (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.o…> - Query Builder <https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder>: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language. - Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214002>) - EntitySchemas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas>: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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